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Application filed December 10, 1913.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it lrnovvn that "We, ROBERT E. CRAic and ALBERT L. CorrMAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of Grand Rapids, county of Kent, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Transfer Printing and Issuing Machines; and we do hereby,

declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference bein had to the accom an inn drawin s fare on a related connecting carrier.

It is a usual requirement to punch or mark the approximate time of delivery of v the transfer to the passenger, supposedly for the purpose ofenabling the collector for the connecting carrier to determine the validity of the transfer for a continuous passage. Ways existed, however, both in the mind of the collector as to the accurate marking of such transfer slips, inasmuch as the issuing conductor or collector frequently marks the same in large quantities, and delivers them from time to time to passengers, as required, so that the hour punched very frequently does not agree with the hour presented to the collector of the connecting carrier, even though immediately presented. In consequence, frequent disputes arise, and sometimes litigation.

Considerable loss is also entailed from the issuing conductor losing such transfers, the finder sometimes using the same for passage and Without the payment of fare. It has also been a serious cause of objection to the use of such transfers, that the time consumed in punching or marking the trans- Specification of Letters Patent.

Uncertainty has heretofore al .Patented @ct, 8, 1918,

Serial No. 805,680.

fers is so great as to seriously interfere with the other duties of the collector.

It is an object of this invention to afiord an automatically acting transfer issuing machine, from which the transfers are delivered, correctly dated and marked with the day and hour, and also the intersecting line with which the same is to be used, and serially numbered, thus enabling the passenger entitled to the same to be given a correctly marked transfer without delay, and enabling the collector to determine at a glance, with certainty, if the transfer presented is, in fact, tendered for a continuous passage.

It is also an object of the invention to afford in a machine of the class described, automatic printing and timing mechanism, and mechanism for guiding the transfer slip correctly to the printing means to insure accuracy of registering and correct printing,

lt is a further object of the invention to adord a device embracing means for correctly registering the transfer slip With the printing means, and also means for severing the individual transfers from a continuous strip after the same have been-printed.

lit is an object of the invention to afi ord a novel dating and timing mechanism, insuring accuracy of the data impressed upon the transfer,

It is also an object of the invention to afford a construction in which the timing and dating mechanism act continuously and automatically to change the dating of the machine from day to day, and to afford mechanism in connection therewith Whereby correct dating is assured for a period of years, including leap years.

It is an important object of the invention to afford means for indicating the transfer point on such transfer, and the line by which the transfer is issued, and also the direction of transfer of the carrier from which issued.

It is a further and important object of the invention to provide an exceedingly srong and durable device of the class described, in Which the mechanism is at all operator, and which acts automatically upon the operation of the actuating lever or means, to posltion, print, sever and eject.

the transfers as required.

The invention has numerous other objects and purposes, as will more fully appear in the drawings, and from the subjoined specification, and a referred form thereof is illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front. elevation of a device embodying my invention.

Fig. 2is arear elevation thereof.

-Fig. 3 is a side elevation'thereof.

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the same.

Fig. 5 is an enlar ed, vertical section taken on line 5-5 of ig. ,1.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged, fragmentary section taken on line 6-6 of Fig.3.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail section taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 5. 4

Fig. 8 is a section taken on line 8-8 of Fig.

Fig. 9 is an enlarged, side elevation -of a part of the printing mechanism, showing the same removed from the casing.

Fig. 10 is an enlarged face view illustrating the data contained upon the various printing rolls.

Fig. 11 is an enlarged section taken on line 11-11 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 12 is an enlarged section taken on line 12-12 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 13 is an enlarged section 13-13 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 14 is an 14-14. of Fig. 9.

Fig. 15 is an 15 15 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 16 is an 16-16 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 17 is an enlarged, top plan view with the casing removed.

. Fig. 18 is an enlarged, fragmentary section taken through the rinting rolls, as shown on line 18-18 of Fig. 11.

Fig. 19 is a section on line 19-19 of Fig. 9.

Fig. Fig. 9.

Fig. 21 is an enlarged, fragmentary detail, illustrating the connections for actuating the register.

Fig. 22 is a section on line 22-22 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 23 is an enlarged, fragmentary section taken on line 23-23 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 24 is an enlarged, fragmentary section taken on line 24-24 of Fig. 8.

Fig. 25 is an enlarged face view of the outer side of one of the frame plates, illustrating also a detent, and adapted also to illustrate the means for holding the mechon line enlarged section on line enlarged section on line enlarged section on line 20 is a section on line 20-20 of anism out of operative relation while inserting paper.

F ig. 26 is a section taken on line 26-26 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 27 is a fragmentary section taken on line 27-27 of Fig. 7, with the feed rolls and gears in elevation. t

Fig. 28 is a section on line 28-28 of Fig. 25, with parts shown in elevation.

Fig. 29is an enlarged detail of. a part of the ribbon shift and feed mechanism.

Fig. 30 is a section taken on line 30-30 of Fig. 29.

Fig. 31 is a section taken on line 31-31 of Fig. 30.

Fig. 32 is a'fragmentary section taken on 'line 32-32 of Fig. 29.

Fig. 33 is a section on line 33-33 of Fig. 30.

, Fig. 34 is of Fig. 29. 4

Fig. 35 is an enlarged detail section taken on line 35-35 of Fig. 8'. v

Fig. 36 is a section on line 36-36 of Fig. 6.

Fig. 37 is a section on Fig. 8. I

Fig. 38 is an enlarged, fragmentary sec tion on line 38-38 of Fig. 13.

Fi 39 is a fragmentary detail section on line 9-39 of Fig. 13.

Fig. 40 is an enlarged section taken on line 40-40 of Fig. 8. v

Fig. 41 is a face view of the street printing bar.

Fig. 42 is an end view thereof. 7 Fig. 43 is a fragmentary face view of a transfer strip, showing two transfers, one completed, and ready to be severed, and the a section taken on line 34-34 line 37-37 of other partly completed.

Fig. 44 is an enlarged, fra mentary de tail of the ratcheted hub o the month wheel. I

As shown in the drawings:

The machine comprises a suitable casing equipped with a timing element or clock, the dial of which is exposed to view. The clock mechanism drives suitable dating means continuously to enable the transfer slip, when issued, to bear thereonthe correct date, including the hour and minute when issued. Means are provided for manual actuation by the operator for indicating on the transfer slip the direction for continuous travel on the connecting line. Mechanism is also provided for actuation by the operator for indicating the street or line, together with the number of the machine from which issued. It also includes the transfer strip feeding mechanism, and manually operated means for actuating the strip and the printing mechanism, and for severing the printed transfer.

A base plate 1, conveniently of rectangular shape, and provided with upwardly and with downwardly directed peripheral flanges 2 and 3, is mounted upon a casing 4, of sheet metal affording a lower compartment for the machine, said casing fitting within the. downwardly directed flange 3, of the base plate, and a similar casing or shell 5, of sheet metal or other suitable material, is engaged at its lower open end within the upwardly directed flanges 2, of the base plate, and affords an upper compartment or chamber housing the operating mechanism of the machine.

Mounted upon the base plate and rigidly secured thereto at the lower ends thereof, near opposite sides of the same, are upright parallel frame plates 6 and 7. Connecting said plates at their top, is a frame bar 8, which acts, together with said base, to hold said frame members 6 and 7, in unvarying relation. As shown also, a horizontal frame bar 9, is rigidly secured to said frame plates 6 and 7, at corresponding edges of said frame plates, as shown in Figs. 5 and 9-, and the lower edge thereof is shaped to afford one member of the cutting mechanism for severing the transfers from the strip as hereinafter more fully described. Said bar 9, also serves to increase rigidity of the frame.

Journaled upon. a suitable spindle 10, carried upon the bracket 11, in the lower oompartment of the frame, is a paper roll 12,

comprising a strip of paper or other suitable material of a width suitable for one dimension of the transfer; for example, the width thereof may correspond with the length of thetransfer when issued, as illustrated in Fig. 43, and said strip, as shown, is provided with closely arranged perforations arranged in parallel lines transversely the strip and equal distances apart, the distance apart corresponding with the other dimension of the transfer when issued, for

I example, the width thereof. The end of the transfer strip is trained about a suitable resilient tension device 13, and thence upwardly, into the upper compartment.

Rotatably secured between the frame plates 6 and 7, on a.- shaft 14, is a drum or 'roll 15, the axis of which extends transversely of the strip 12. Set in the periphery of said roll, and arranged in longitudinally extending lines a distance apart to correspond with the distance between adjacent lines of perforations in the strip, are pins 16, which engage in the perforations in said strip and act to insure accuracy of feed, as hereinafter more fully described. F rom said roll 15, the strip is led outwardly and substantially horizontally by means of suitable feed rolls 17 and 18, which pass the end of the strip beneath the frame or knife bar 9, and into position to be severed by the upward swing of the lower knife bar 19, as hereinafter more fully described.

Set in the front wall atthe top of the upper casing member 5, is a clock mechan sm, the dial 20, of which is exposed to view at the outer side of the casing. The

shaft 21, for the minute hand, projects rearwardly from the clock mechanism, and the end thereof is journaled on the wall of the frame plate 7 as shown in Fig. 6, and rigidly secured thereon is a gear wheel 22, which meshes with a larger gear wheel 23, journaled on said frame-plate. A pinion 24, which meshes with the gear wheel 23, is yieldingly engaged upon a short shaft section 25, journaled in the frame plate '7, and rigidly secured on said'shaft section 25, at the inner side of said frame plate, is a minute wheel 26, havin marked on its periphery, as shown at A, in Fig. 10, the numerals beginning with 1, and ending with 58, indicating the minutes by threes successively.

J ournaled in the frame plate 6, and in the bore of the minute Wheel 26, in alinement with the shaft section, 25, is a shaft 27, and

'journal ed thereon are indicating Wheels of uniform diameter with the minute wheel 26, and in their order arranged as follows Figs. 10 and 18): 28, indicating hours; 29, indicating the days of the month consecutively; 30, indicating months; 31, indicating the number of the year; 32, indicating direction, and 33, indicating streets, the peripheries of said wheels being marked appropriately, as indicated at Fig. 10, in which an appropriate reading for each wheel is shown. at A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, respectively. As shown, the wheel 32, indicating direction, is rigidly keyed on the shaft 27, and on the outer end of said shaft where the sameextends through the casing 5, is secured a'crank 34, provided with a suitable handle 35. Concentric with said shaft, and secured to the outer wall of the casing, is a dial 36, shown in Fig. 2, and

marked to indicate the directions, and said direction indicating wheel 32, is secured on said shaft to correspond with the pointer or crank arm 34, so that when the crank arm is adjusted as a pointer to any of the markings on its adjacent dial, the direction indicated on the dial is likewise indicated at the under side of the periphery of the direction wheel 32, in position for printing.

' A gear wheel 37, is rigidly secured on one end of the street indicating wheel 33, as shown in Figs. 9 and 18, and journaled above the same on the frame plate 6, is a shaft having rigidly secured thereon a gear wheel 38, meshing with the gear wheel 37, and provided on its inner end with a bevel gear 39, which meshes with a bevel gear 40, secured on a. shaft 41, which extends through the top of the upper casing, as shown in F i s. 4 and 9.

in-rounding said shaft 41, is a clamping ring 42, having an inwardly projecting flange at its inner periphery, adapted. to engage over and clamp in place an indicating 

